Comment by PhilipRoman

2 years ago

I recommend just skipping blame and going to git log -L to see the full evolution of a range of lines, I set up a little keybind in vim which does this for the current visual selection and it works much better than blame.

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PhilipRoman

a_e_k 2 years ago

And for those using Magit in Emacs, you can do this by selecting a region of lines and hitting `C-c M-g l`.

https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Commands-for-Buffers-Visiting-...

karthink 2 years ago

This feature is built into Emacs, no Magit needed. It's the vc-region-history command, bound to `C-x v h` by default. It works across all version control systems Emacs supports, not just git.
agumonkey 2 years ago

There's also git time machine to quickly rollback a buffer in place

jmholla 2 years ago

Nice. Can you share your vim configuration for that?

PhilipRoman 2 years ago

My config is kind of cluttered so this is a simplified version without dependencies. Glogr is for range history, GLogf for file history and <leader>gc for showing a commit based on hash:

    nnoremap <leader>gc :Gshow <C-R><C-W><cr>
    command! -nargs=1 Gshow enew | set ft=diff buftype=nofile | 0r!git log -p -n 1 "<args>"
    command! -nargs=0 Glogf tabnew | set ft=diff buftype=nofile | 0r!git -C "#:h" log -p --follow "#:t"
    command! -nargs=0 -range Glogr tabnew | set ft=diff buftype=nofile | 0r!git -C "#:h" log -L "<line1>,<line2>:#:t"